Tom Stoppard's 'The Importance Of Being Earnest'
APPRECIATE THE SOUND EFFECTS OF STOPPARD’S LANGUAGE IN ARCADIA BY ANALYSING THREE CHOICE PHRASES Jade Hope
Tom Stoppard generates an aristocratic hauteur in the voice of Lady Croom, due to the indignation, imperiousness and intolerance of differing opinions of those around her. Her line ‘my hycacinth dell is become a haunt for hobgoblins’ can compared to the drippingly sarcastic famous words of Edith Evans in The Importance of Being Earnest, ‘A handbag?’. This allows us to imagine that when performed, Lady Croom has a similarly ‘sweeping’ and haughty manner to her voice which delivers the patterns of alliteration in the line perfectly. Her aspirates can be performed as plosives which make for a much more expressive deliverance of the line, as well as what we imagine being the steadily rising pitch in her voice. Undoubtedly this deliverance allows for a much more gripping effect on the audience. …show more content…
Here, we can presume that she uses rolled ‘r’s to deliver the line and to make it comically upper class, as expected from the Lady of the house in early 19th century. She uses a mixture of approximants alongside aspirates, which allow the line to remain strong and significant throughout as opposed to fading off towards the end. Her extensive use of vocabulary and mixture of aspirates, as in the phrase ‘rustic hovel’ allows her to fulfil her line to its dramatic potential, making it known that the garden is an indisputably important part of 1809
Tom Stoppard generates an aristocratic hauteur in the voice of Lady Croom, due to the indignation, imperiousness and intolerance of differing opinions of those around her. Her line ‘my hycacinth dell is become a haunt for hobgoblins’ can compared to the drippingly sarcastic famous words of Edith Evans in The Importance of Being Earnest, ‘A handbag?’. This allows us to imagine that when performed, Lady Croom has a similarly ‘sweeping’ and haughty manner to her voice which delivers the patterns of alliteration in the line perfectly. Her aspirates can be performed as plosives which make for a much more expressive deliverance of the line, as well as what we imagine being the steadily rising pitch in her voice. Undoubtedly this deliverance allows for a much more gripping effect on the audience. …show more content…
Here, we can presume that she uses rolled ‘r’s to deliver the line and to make it comically upper class, as expected from the Lady of the house in early 19th century. She uses a mixture of approximants alongside aspirates, which allow the line to remain strong and significant throughout as opposed to fading off towards the end. Her extensive use of vocabulary and mixture of aspirates, as in the phrase ‘rustic hovel’ allows her to fulfil her line to its dramatic potential, making it known that the garden is an indisputably important part of 1809